Stable Block And Attached Forecourt Wall Approximately 5 Metres To North-West Of Ford House

SJ 4013-4113; 13/62

FORD C.P., FORD, Stable block and attached forecourt wall approx. 5 metres to north-west of Ford House

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Stable block and attached forecourt wall. Early C18. Red brick with plain tile roof. Two storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with chamfered sandstone copings, moulded at feet; small brick ridge stack. North-east front: central first-floor circular window with flanking boarded loft doors and pairs of ventilation slits; two ground-floor 2-light segmental-headed wooden casements flanking central depressed-arched entrance with three segmental-headed boarded doors behind. Large red sandstone hinge block to right of entrance. Short section of forecourt wall adjoining to south-west; red brick with red sandstone coping; approximately 7 metres long and one metre high; curving round and ramped up to square brick gate pier with pyramidal stone cap. Interior: central ground-floor tack room with panelling, fireplace and corner cupboard. The stable block forms one side of a small courtyard to the north-west of Ford House (q.v.) , also including a barn (q.v.) and dovecote (q.v.). V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 226.

Listing NGR: SJ4126013902